program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. i d like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i m just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of allies. you can add the arab league to its list of critics. finance ministers from the league want to punish damascus for its crackdown on protesters. new video on youtube showed enthusiastic demonstration with syrians pledging with the league to hit the regime hardment something you don t normally see in public. proposed sanctions would include freezing government assets and those belonging to syrian
egypt are headed home, arriving later on tonight. they were accused of taking part in the violent protests in tahrir square. egyptian officials say the students threw molotov cocktails from a rooftop. the student deny the charges. nba players and owners reached a tentative deal this morning so play may resume december 25th. the players still have to ratify the agreement but the plan is to start a 66 game season with a christmas day triple header. the nba lockout has lasted 149 days. president obama commented on the deal this morning saying it s good and gave it a thumbs up. an arizona family says police were too rough during a take down at a walmart store. cnn ireporter david chad captured the scene and sent us this video. it shows gerald newman s arrest during a black friday arrest. he hit his head on the floor. police say he knocked himself out. officers say newman path video game under his shirt and then resisted arrest. he kept saying that cop was aggressive. everyb
time of people demonstrating against the government. i still can t get over how many cameras are in china. jill dougherty, thank you so much, at the washington bureau for us today. thank you, jill. and now this here we go. hour two, welcome back. i m brooke baldwin. many holiday travelers are impacted at this hour by severe weather. also, police are investigating a student s sudden death. just how financially sound are the big banks? ted rowlands is riding an amtrack train to chicago. ted? reporter: brooke, we ve been talking to people all morning long. we started at st. louis at 4:30 in the morning. melvin joined us later on in the trip. you like the train? yes or no? yes. why? it s convenient, you know. it s just convenient for me. my daughter is in st. louis, i m in chicago. it s a quick trip. and cheaper, too. betty is on her way to virginia, eventually and betty, why do you like taking the train? well, it s a better ride. it s more economical. there s n
rules says joe paterno s football players got preference shl treatment because joe paterno demanded. she held the post from 2003 to 2007. in a statement to cnn, she says in part, over several years, there were numerous meetings and discussions about specific impending student discipline cases that involved football players. as a result, my staff and i felt compelled to alter how we handled cases involving penn state football players. the consequence of these accommodations put us in the position of treating football players more favorable than other students. joe paterno s lawyer says the claims are misleading and filled with inaccuracies. cnn has obtained a statement for air. we ll report that in a moment. all of this comes as pennsylvania s department of child and youth services is said to be investigating two new allegations of child sex abuse on the part of jerry sandusky. these are the first known cases involving alleged victims who are still underage. sandusky is fo
fredricka whitfield. get you up to speed this wednesday november 23rd. just in egypt s highest ranking muslim cleric is calling on police to stop attacking protesters. this comes as the country s uprising bloodier and bolder. authorities now say at least 35 people have been killed and almost 2,000 injured in five straight days of violence. clashes between protesters and police are happening outside tahrir square. and inside the square, tens of thousands of demonstrators are standing their ground demanding the country s military council quickly hand over power to civilian rule. our ben wedeman was on the ground just a short time ago. reporter: a lot of the protesters we saw did go back to tahrir square by the by the army and the religious figures. 400 or 500 more are holding their ground. they re not moving back. three american college students accused of throws molotov cocktails at ejipgts police are expected to face more questions today this time in the presence